When open adoption started gaining traction in the late 1980s and early 1990s, critics argued it would confuse children about their identity and hurt their self-esteem, and that it would make birth mothers grieve longer as they continued to see the children.
Epidemiologists have long been aware of the baleful effects of contradictory findings reported in the media, which confuse the public about what threats to health are worth worrying about.
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Last year's dominance came after an ugly 6-2, 6-3 loss in the fourth round in Australia to Ekaterina Makarova, the 24-year-old Russian no one is about to confuse with Martina Navratilova.
Others fear that Pfizer's tactics may drive up costs for the employers who sponsor health plans, thanks to the complexities of co-payment schemes, and confuse patients lectured for years about the merits of generics.
The lesson: Hyneman said such contraptions are more about moving energy around to confuse, rather than doing any real work.
Seniority, personal connections, a reluctance to talk about individual merits or faults - all confuse the issue.
For example, your casual email conversation about a Homeaway.com rental will probably confuse Worldmate's processing engine, again forcing a manual entry.
Unfortunately, adding this term to our vocabulary when we talk about attitudes and behavior has done more to confuse than to clarify.
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The loathsome thing about the Obama defenders is their intentional misuse of the language to confuse.
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This seems to confuse the bejesus out of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke, who worries more about deflation than inflation.
Many people talk about government spending as a percentage of GDP or attempt to use spurious metrics that confuse the main theme of the data.
With a nod toward Bayes theorem, Ludlow basically wants to confuse the advertisers trying to profile him and the algorithmic machines that are trying to make predictions about him by throwing lots of false information about himself onto their radars.
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